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Carl Deal and Tia Lessin’s documentary “Steal This Story, Please!” about journalist and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman will open the third edition of DC/Dox on June 12.

In the film, Deal and Lessin, who produced “Fahrenheit 9/11,” chronicle Goodman’s personal story along with the monumental events she has covered as a reporter. The film, which will make its world premiere at DC/Dox, highlights the crucial role of journalism in shaping our understanding of truth at a time when independent journalism is under threat.

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s “The Alabama Solution,” about incarcerated men who expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems, will serve as the DC/Dox Centerpiece film. The HBO documentary premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

Chase Joynt’s “State of Firsts,” about Sarah McBride’s historic run to become the first trans member of Congress,...

Ryan Gosling has been a household name for over 20 years, thanks to an acting catalog that spans several different genres and countless box office hits. Most recently, fans will have seen him as Ken in Barbie (2023) and Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy (2024). Like all actors, however, among all the hits and critically acclaimed work, he has his fair share of lesser-known and forgotten films.

One of these films, All Good Things (2010), was a thriller that was based on a disturbing true story. All Good Things stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst as the two leads and was directed by Andrew Jarecki. The two men who wrote the film, Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling, were inspired by a real-life crime, and the real story ended up intertwining with its fictional adaptation in surprising ways.

What 'All Good Things' Is About

The movie is set in 1970s New York, where David Marks,...

Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley in ‘Come See Me in the Good Light, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Brandon Somerhalder)

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival wrapped up with the announcement of the Festival Favorite Award. The documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, directed by Ryan White, was voted by audiences as the best of the feature films screened at the 2025 festival.

“Throughout the Festival we saw audiences moved by Andrea Gibson’s and Megan Falley’s journeys in Come See Me in the Good Light. Festival goers embraced the humor and heartbreak of this intimate documentary directed by Ryan White, as it speaks to art and love and reminds us what it means to be alive as we face mortality,” stated Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming.

As the 2025 festival comes to a close, the Sundance Institute announced...

Sundance audiences have cast a bright light on Ryan White’s, Come See Me in the Good Light, by delivering a festival favorite prize on the feature film documentary.

Come See Me in the Good Light follows two poets, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, as they “go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life and mortality,” per the official festival description, spurred by the former’s incurable cancer diagnosis. The doc’s high profile roster of producers and executive producers includes such names as Tig Notaro, Brandi Carlile, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Kevin Nealon and Sara Bareilles, among others.

“Throughout the festival we saw audiences moved by Andrea Gibson’s and Megan Falley’s journeys in Come See Me in the Good Light. Festival goers embraced the humor and heartbreak of this intimate documentary directed by Ryan White, as it speaks to art and love and reminds...

Come See Me in the Good Light, in the Premieres category, received the Festival Favorite award at the 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, voted for by the audiences from all the new feature films presented. Looking ahead to next year, the fest announced dates for the 2026 edition, taking place in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1.

“The past 11 days of the Festival have been a meaningful opportunity to connect as a community in support of independent storytelling,” acting CEO of the Sundance Institute Amanda Kelso said. “We look forward to being reunited with audiences, artists, industry, and press next January for another edition of the Festival.”

Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival director of programming, added: “Throughout the Festival we saw audiences moved by Andrea Gibson’s and Megan Falley’s journeys in Come See Me in the Good Light. Festival goers embraced the humor...

The Alabama Solution

Relying heavily on footage shot by inmates on prohibited cellphones, Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s powerful and gripping documentary isn’t an easy watch, but it’s a crucial one. The film’s focus is on corruption and abuses of power specific to Alabama’s prisons — and the heroism of the men who have found ways to evolve within a system that has no interest in participating in their rehabilitation and denies their basic humanity in every way. — Daniel Fienberg

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Before his death in 1963, scholar W.E.B. Du Bois spent decades trying to publish an encyclopedia about people of African descent. That mission propels Kahlil Joseph’s hypnotic debut feature — a kinetic video essay blending Afro-futurist narrative, archival footage and memoir — that’s like an index of Black culture from the past 50 years. Joseph animates the fictional story of a journalist reporting on a transatlantic curatorial project with voiceover,...

The pulverized face of Steven Davis tells a terrifying story of conditions inside Alabama state prisons – his eyes swollen shut, his bruised flesh a deep purple.

“They beat him so badly his head was misshapen,” his mother, Sandy Ray, said at the time. “He looked like an alien.”

The “they” she referred to are prison guards at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Jefferson County, Al. Guards claimed Davis came at them with makeshift weapons, but that account is very much called into question in the documentary The Alabama Solution, directed by Emmy winner Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman (The Jinx part 2). The film, which is expected to air on HBO later this year, just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

“The prisons have been allowed to run essentially unmonitored,” Jarecki tells Deadline. “You have a prison camp where there may be 1,400 [inmates] living,...

Many Oscar contenders have been dive-bombed over the years, but Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón did herself in: first for complaining about rival Fernanda Torres, then for resurfaced tweets on her now-deleted X account (@karsiagascon). In past posts that went viral this week, she dissed Muslims, George Floyd, and Oscars diversity, among other things. We debate: If Gascón is out of the running, does she bring down her movie as well, which leads the field with 13 nominations?

Ryan Lattanzio is back from Sundance, which Friday announced its awards; he and Anne are both bingeing on the Sundance portal. While some films came in with distribution, the market seems slow. One Midnight entry spawned a bidding war won by Neon for over $16 million, Michael Shanks’ horror flick “Together,” starring husband-and-wife team Alison Brie and Dave Franco, which Ryan enjoyed and believes will hit big at the box office. Neon has...

Charlie Shackleton’s Zodiac Killer Project is a phoenix of sorts, born of twin failures. Chp Officer Lyndon E. Lafferty was convinced that he had discerned the identity of the Zodiac Killer, which of course he never proved. In 2012, Lafferty’s The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up: The Silent Badge was published, and later Shackleton was in the process of turning the book into a true-crime documentary, until the author’s family decided not to grant the filmmaker the rights to the material. Lafferty, who died in 2016, had no say in the matter. Lafferty and Shackleton are united, then, along with many others, in having been eluded in various fashions by the Zodiac Killer, who’s become a latter-day Jack the Ripper in the American imagination.

It’s not difficult to see why the Zodiac Killer haunts us. With his flamboyant taunting and cryptology, he’s a Hollywood boogeyman made real. He’s come to exist,...

“The Alabama Solution” is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I’ve ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, the movie is a scalding portrait of life on the inside that exerts a grip worthy of a thriller. It’s an investigative documentary, filmed over five years, much of it in and around the Easterling Correctional Facility in Southeast Alabama, that doesn’t merely show us the chronic abuse of prisoners. It uncovers a culture of sanctified lawlessness. And the way “The Alabama Solution” reveals this, peeling away layers of a systemic cover-up, becomes as dramatic as the crimes it’s about.

The movie follows in the incendiary footsteps of documentaries like Ava DuVernay’s “13th” and Liz Garbus and Jonathan Stack’s “The Farm: Angola, USA” and Stanley Nelson’s “Attica,” building on their insights. And it infiltrates the...

Andrew Jarecki has never been more anxious about sharing a new project at Sundance.

The veteran documentarian has debuted at the festival his Oscar-nominated “Capturing the Friedmans” (2003), “Just a Clown” (2004), “Catfish” (2010), and Emmy-winning series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” (2015), which he followed up with a popular sequel.

This week in Park City, Jarecki and his producer-turned-co-director Charlotte Kaufman premiered HBO’s “The Alabama Solution,” a hard-hitting exposé of the brutal Alabama state prison system, a six-year investigative project that deploys video footage taken on the contraband phones of the inmates themselves, as well as interviews by the filmmakers. The movie inspired a long, standing ovation at The Library, and the film’s activist subjects, Melvin Ray and Robert Earl Council, sent a pre-recorded video and participated in a live Q&a by phone from prison.

This movie left my jaw open a few times. I gasped...

“Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in America’s deadliest prison system,” reads the logline for the HBO-backed documentary “The Alabama Solution.” But that does not begin to describe this powerful and extremely necessary call-to-action.

Over the last decade, incarcerated men in Alabama prisons have been fighting to bring recognition to corruption and inhumane treatment. Thousands of men have died in prison, many at the hands of correctional officers and others of overdoses on drugs allegedly supplied by correctional officers. The death toll is so high that the Alabama Department of Corrections is widely regarded as the deadliest prison system in the United States. With the Adoc also supplying prison labor to private corporations like Walmart, Hyundai, and McDonald’s, accusations of modern-day slavery have also followed.

Veteran Emmy, Peabody and Sundance-winning filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, known for his 12-part HBO series “The Jinx” that led to Robert Durst...

Even if the documentary weren’t premiering at a moment when key aspects of the federal government are being dismantled seemingly at random, the title of Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s The Alabama Solution would sound ominous.

The title, which comes equipped with “Final Solution” resonances, refers to a promise or threat by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey that if there are problems in the Alabama prison system, they’re an Alabama problem and must have an Alabama solution. Which is a transparent way of saying, “Butt out” to the Department of Justice and an equally transparent way of saying, “Nah, nothing is going to change.”

The reality, of course, is that The Alabama Solution makes clear that the problems captured in the documentary aren’t simply “Alabama problems.” And although I’m not sure the doc is nearly as effective at insinuating what solutions might be, it’s a...

New documentary The Alabama Solution exposes rampant state violence and inhumane conditions inside prisons

Floors streaked with blood, rat-infested cells, flooded hallways and routine beatings by officers – these are but some of the degrading conditions within Alabama state prisons revealed by leaked cellphone videos in a shocking, galvanizing new documentary that premiered at the Sundance film festival on Tuesday.

The Alabama Solution, directed by Andrew Jarecki (The Jinx) and Charlotte Kaufman, reports on the inhumane living conditions, forced labor and rampant officer violence against the state’s incarcerated population, as told by inmates who served as confidential, covert sources. The two-hour film, made over the course of six years, also documents prisoners’ longstanding efforts to improve conditions deemed “unconstitutional” by the US justice department in a 2020 report, under constant physical threat from prison management. Despite federal calls for prison reform, Alabama’s prisons currently operate at 200% capacity, the film notes,...

“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens,” wrote Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “but by how it treats its criminals.” The United States ranks as an unabashed and alarming failure by that metric. The country’s negligence toward the vulnerable and marginalized will certainly not come as news (or at least a surprise) to most, so it’s a testament to the fearless filmmaking of co-directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufmann that their documentary “The Alabama Solution” lands with such force.

Continue reading ‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: A Wrenching Look At A New Civil Rights Battlefield [Sundance] at The Playlist.

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Jan. 7, 2025. BAFTA Rising Star Award nominees announced

Marisa Abela (Back to Black), Jharrel Jerome (Unstoppable), David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus), Mikey Madison (Anora), and Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera) are the 2025 BAFTA Rising Star Award nominees. Now in its 20th year, the Rising Star Award is the only BAFTA honor voted on by the British public. The award has historically gone to Brits, which bodes well for Abela, Jonsson, and Rizwan (all of whom have also been on Industry). Last year’s winner was How to Have Sex star Mia McKenna-Bruce. Past winners include Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Will Poulter, John Boyega, Tom Holland, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, and Lashana Lynch. The last American champ was Kristen Stewart in 2010.

Abela and Madison could find themselves with two nominations as both were longlisted last week in Best Actress for their respective performances. BAFTA nominations will be announced Wednesday,...

The Alabama Solution and The Stringer, which have been added to the Sundance line-up Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute The Sundance Film Festival has announced two non-fiction films will be added to the Premieres section of this year's line-up.

Bao Nguyen's The Stringer follows a two-year investigation that uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognised photographs of the 20th century.

Andrew Jarecki's The Alabama Solution sees incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.

Both directors have been at the festival before - Jarecki brought Capturing The Friedmans (2003), Just A Clown (2004), and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015), while Nguyen premiered Be Water (2020) and The Greatest Night in Pop (2024).

Director of programming Kim Yutani said: “Adding these two nonfiction features to our robust slate of documentary offerings at the festival, both told...

Two new documentaries — The Alabama Solution from Andrew Jarecki and The Stringer from Bao Nguyen – have been added to the Premieres category of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Institute announced today. Both directors have histories with the festival. Each of the projects are directed by filmmakers who have presented their works at previous editions of the Sundance Film Festival. Nguyen premiered Be Water in 2020 and The Greatest Night in Pop in 2024, while The Alabama Solution director Andrew Jarecki’s previous Sundance titles are Capturing the Friedmans (2003), Just a Clown (2004), and The Jinx: The […]

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Two new documentaries — The Alabama Solution from Andrew Jarecki and The Stringer from Bao Nguyen – have been added to the Premieres category of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Institute announced today. Both directors have histories with the festival. Each of the projects are directed by filmmakers who have presented their works at previous editions of the Sundance Film Festival. Nguyen premiered Be Water in 2020 and The Greatest Night in Pop in 2024, while The Alabama Solution director Andrew Jarecki’s previous Sundance titles are Capturing the Friedmans (2003), Just a Clown (2004), and The Jinx: The […]

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Making for a cool 88-title 2025 edition, the Sundance Film Festival have added two last minute additions to the line-up in the Premieres category. Andrew Jarecki (who broke out big in Park City with Capturing the Friedmans back in 2003) will present The Alabama Solution – which looks at how incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems. Bao Nguyen will introduce The Stringer – this is about a two-year investigation that uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”…...

The 2025 Sundance slate is getting some more star power with two buzzy documentaries: Andrew Jarecki’s “The Alabama Solution” and Bao Nguyen’s “The Stringer.”

Both nonfiction features are the latest additions to the Premieres category lineup for the annual festival. With the two documentaries included, the festival totals 88 feature films to screen. Out of the lineup, 96 percent of features are world premieres.

“Adding these two nonfiction features to our robust slate of documentary offerings at the Festival, both told by filmmakers who have been a part of our Sundance community for many years, completes our programming with compelling explorations around justice and truth-telling,” Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival director of programming, said in a press statement.

“The Alabama Solution” is co-directed and co-produced by Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman. The film, which makes its world premiere at the festival, centers on incarcerated men who defy the odds to expose a...

The Sundance festival has added Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s The Alabama Solution and Bao Nguyen’s The Stringer to its documentary feature line-up.

Both films hail from the US and will get their world premieres in the Premieres category of this year’s festival, which runs January 23 to February 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City.

The Alabama Solution, which Jarecki and Kaufman produced and directed, centres on incarcerated men who defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.

The Stringer, directed by Nguyen and produced by Fiona Turner and Terri Lichstein,...

The Sundance Film Festival has added two documentaries from directors Andrew Jarecki’s and Bao Nguyen to its 2025 documentary lineup.

Jarecki’s docu, titled “The Alabama Solution,” is about, per the film’s press release, “incarcerated men who defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.”

“The Alabama Solution” is the fourth project that Jarecki has debuted at Sundance. Twenty-two years ago, in 2003, the director’s inaugural film, “Capturing the Friedmans,” had its world premiere in Park City. An investigatory docu that cast light and doubt on a family of alleged child molesters, “Capturing the Friedmans” was a critical hit that went on to garner an Oscar nomination. In 2004, Jarecki’s short film “Just a Clown” premiered at Sundance. That was followed by the 2015 debut of the director’s “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.” The HBO bombshell six-part docuseries,...

The Sundance Film Festival is adding two docs to its 2025 schedule.

The Alabama Solution and The Stringer will both screen in the Premieres section of the fest, which will kick off on Jan. 23 in park City.

From Bao Nguyen, who last year premiered The Greatest Night in Pop at the fest, The Stringer follows a two-year search to uncover, according to its logline, “the scandal behind the making of one of the most recognized photographs of the 20th century.”

Andrew Jarecki Charlotte Kaufman’s The Alabama Solution focuses on the incarcerated men who expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.

“Adding these two nonfiction features to our robust slate of documentary offerings at the Festival, both told by filmmakers who have been a part of our Sundance community for many years, completes our programming with compelling explorations around justice and truth-telling,” said festival program director Kim Yutani.

After Eugene Jarecki‘s documentary “The Six Billion Dollar Man” about Julian Assange mysteriously withdrew late last month, the Sundance Institute had a small hole in its programming schedule. Today, it made up for it with the announcement of two new films to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival slate. The new selections are Bao Nguyen’s “The Stringer” and Andrew Jarecki’s “The Alabama Solution.” Both documentaries will be included in the premieres category.

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The 2025 Sundance Film Festival has added two movies documentaries to its premiere section, The Alabama Solution and The Stringer.

The Alabama Solution is from directors and producers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman and follows an incarcerated men who defies the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems. HBO will be releasing The Alabama Solution. Jarecki He made the Emmy-winning documentary series The Jinx for HBO, as well as Capturing the Friedmans which made its world premiere at Sundance in 2003 and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Circle award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Jarecki also had Just a Clown (2004) and The Jink in 2015 at the fest.

Filmmaker Bao Nguyen is also a Sundance vet, and his latest The Stringer follows a two-year investigation uncovering a scandal behind the making...

Sundance has officially completed its schedule for 2025 with the addition of two new documentaries: Andrew Jarecki's The Alabama Solution and Bao Nguyen's The Stringer. Both will screen in the Premieres category.

From director Andrew Jarecki, who previously brought films like Capturing the Friedmans (2003), Just a Clown (2004), and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst...

Obsession over true crime stories have led to plenty of films and TV series.Netflix'All Good Things''All Good Things' featured Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.Movieclips/Youtube

Inspired by Robert Durst's life, director Andrew Jarecki's 2010 film All Good Things tells the story of a real estate heir suspected – and eventually convicted – of multiple murders.

It stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, who play the roles of David Marks and Katie McCarthy, respectively.

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Changeling recounts the true story of the 1928 Wineville Chicken Coop murders in California. Starring Angelina Jolie, the 2008 mystery crime drama film explores the journey of Christine Collins, a single mother who, refusing to believe her son had been murdered, tirelessly searched for him until her death in 1964.

In addition to Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore, and Jason Butler Harner appear in the film.

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These movies and TV shows revisited the notorious crimes in history that sent shivers down viewers' spines.NETFLIXAll Good Things'All Good Things' featured Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst.Movieclips/YouTube

Inspired by Robert Durst's life, director Andrew Jarecki's 2010 film All Good Things tells the story of a real estate heir suspected — and eventually convicted — of multiple murders. It stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, who play the roles of David Marks and Katie McCarthy, respectively.

Changeling'Changeling' is based on Walter Collins' case.Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers/YouTube

Changeling recounts the true story of the 1928 Wineville Chicken Coop murders in California. Starring Angelina Jolie, the 2008 mystery crime drama film explores the journey of Christine Collins, a single mother who, refusing to believe her son had been murdered, tirelessly searched for him until her death in 1964.

In addition to Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore and Jason Butler Harner...

The Critics Choice Association (Cca) unveiled the winners of the Ninth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards at a gala event in New York City on Sunday night. “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” and “Will & Harper” shared the top award of the evening, as the films tied for Best Documentary Feature. It was a huge night for “Super/Man,” which swept all six of its nominated categories, including wins for Best Director for Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Best Editing for Otto Burnham, Best Score for Ilan Eshkeri, Best Archival Documentary, and Best Biographical Documentary.

“The Last of the Sea Women,” “Simone Biles Rising,”and “Sugarcane” each took home two awards. “The Last of the Sea Women” won the awards for Best Cinematography for Iris Ng, Eunson Choo, and Justin Turkowski, and Best Science/Nature Documentary. “Simone Biles Rising” won Best Sports Documentary and Best Limited Documentary Series. “Sugarcane” picked...

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story led the pack of winners, sweeping with six accolades in all of its nominated categories at the ninth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, held today at The Edison Ballroom in New York City. In a surprise moment, the film also shared a win with Netflix’s Will & Harper for best documentary feature.

Also honored during the ceremony was Oscar-nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy, who received the Pennebaker Award, named for the late Critics Choice Lifetime Achievement Award winner D. A. Pennebaker (The War Room). Pennebaker’s widow and producing partner Chris Hegedus presented the award.

The celebration was live-streamed on platforms YouTube, X and Facebook, with viewing also made available on the Critics Choice Association website beginning at 7 p.m. Et.

Debuting at Sundance Film Festival, Super/Man became a favorite among critics upon its premiere. The movie tells the emotional story of Reeve’s rise...

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and Will & Harper tied for best documentary feature at the 2024 Critics Choice Documentary Awards on Sunday night.

The first film won in all six of the categories in which it was nominated.

In addition to best documentary feature, Super/Man, about the actor who played the Man of Steel and his advocacy for disability awareness after he was paralyzed in a tragic accident, won best director (Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui), best editing (Otto Burnham), best score (Ilan Eshkeri), best archival documentary and best biographical documentary.

Sugarcane, which scored the most nominations this year with eight, won two awards, for best political documentary and best true-crime documentary. The Last of the Sea Women and Simone Biles Rising also won two awards each. The first film, which counts Malala Yousafzai among its producers, won the awards for best cinematography (Iris Ng, Eunson Choo and Justin Turkowski...

Exclusive: A new true crime series is in early development spotlighting the points of view of Robert Durst’s female victims and the investigators who believed he was a more prolific serial killer than the world ever knew, sources reveal to Deadline.

From UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Peacock, the untitled project hails from writer, showrunner and executive producer Dara Resnik. She also exec produces with Jimmy Fox and Emily Bon for Main Event Media and Matt Birkbeck.

Durst was charged with the murders of his ex-wife Kathleen McCormack, his friend Susan Berman and neighbor Morris Black but served very little jail time. As the heir to successful real estate investor Seymour Durst, Robert Durst had extensive amounts of money at his disposal.

McCormack went missing on January 31, 1982, with Durst saying he put her on a train to New...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2024 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 13 to June 24, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 17. Afterwards, final voting commences on August 15 and ends the night of August 26. The 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are set to take place on Sunday, September 15, and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

Click on for more of our previous thoughts on what to expect at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.

The State of the Race

For those paying close attention to some of the categories down the line, the nominations for the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series came as quite a surprise. Not only did no Hulu project make it in, despite being the reigning...

Morgan Neville, the director of “Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces,” always loved movies and writing as a child, but when he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, he was unsure what to do with his interests. He thought “writing seemed serious” and “movies were too frivolous” to get into show business, but once he started his first documentary, “Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.,” he knew he found his lifelong passion.

“I remember sending my parents a note two weeks into starting my first documentary saying, ‘This is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life,'” Neville said. “I instantly knew that documentary was all these different things I liked, the storytelling, the writing, the research, the interviewing, all of it.”

As part of Variety’s Virtual FYC TV Fest, Neville joined Andrew Jarecki, director, executive producer and writer of “The Jinx – Part Two,...

On Sunday, August 11, HBO and Max celebrated their 2024 Emmys nominations with a star-studded, day-long gala of panels, mingling and fun photo ops. TV academy members in attendance were treated to breakfast in the morning, lunch in the afternoon featuring music from director Jamila Wignot‘s “Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.,” and a dinner reception in the evening with specialty cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres. The FYC event took place at Nya Studios East in Hollywood.

This year, “True Detective: Night Country” leads all HBO and Max programming with a whopping 19 Emmy nominations, including for Best Limited Series and stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. “Hacks” is close behind with 16 bids, including for Best Comedy Series and actresses Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder. Find out who wins the gold when the Creative Arts ceremonies take place on September 7 and 8, and the Primetime event airs live on September 15.

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Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki knows that voice intimately. It has seeped into his consciousness — the distinctive New York rasp of Robert Durst, scion of a powerful New York real estate family and a man suspected of triple murder.

“Once it’s in your head, you can’t get rid of it,” he says.

Jarecki has heard that voice too many times to count: In interviews, prison phone calls, wiretaps, voicemails — the persistent, insistent whine that conveyed to Durst accomplices, enablers, attorneys, “This is what I need from you.” And his signature sign-off, “Bye bye,” uttered almost mechanically, but with an open-ended undertone that sent a message: “Until the next thing I need from you.”

“His voice was a big part of this kind of hypnotic quality of Bob,” says the director of The Jinx, parts 1 and 2. “He’s able to exert dominance through his voice and through his delivery.”

That larynx,...

The fourth annual Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Paramount+ is only days away, live on August 15th from New York City. In celebration of the event, Rolling Stone and Variety are releasing their third annual Truth Seekers special issue for those who value journalism and documentary filmmaking.

The special issue will showcase interviews with some of the most distinguished professionals in the field. CNN foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward, known for her fearless reporting from conflict zones such as Ukraine and Gaza, shares her insights and experiences. Additionally, filmmaker Jamila Wignot...

With the Truth Seekers Summit presented by Paramount+ less than a month away—August 15th in The Big Apple—Rolling Stone and Variety have added more esteemed names to an already star-studded lineup.

In an era where truth and integrity in journalism are more crucial than ever, journalist and author E. Jean Carroll will be honored with the Truth Seeker Award. This accolade celebrates the extraordinary achievements of journalists and documentary filmmakers dedicated to unearthing the truth, and Carroll’s steadfast commitment to truth and justice is documented (most notably,...

Some of the entertainment industry’s top filmmakers will go up against each other at the 76th Emmy Awards.

Oscar winner Ron Howard’s Jim Henson Idea Man earned eight Emmy nominations this morning, more than any other nonfiction contender in the race. The Disney+ film about the Muppets creator is nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, and Howard scored a nomination for directing the film. See the full list of Emmy documentary nominees below.

Howard is far from the only prominent name to earn recognition in the documentary categories. Rob Reiner earned a nomination for directing Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, and his HBO documentary will go up against Jim Henson Idea Man in the Nonfiction Special category. Reiner and Brooks have been friends for over 50 years.

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In a year—a critical election year, at that—where the concept of “truth” is tested daily, Rolling Stone and Variety have teamed up again to host the fourth annual Truth Seekers Summit, presented by Paramount+. Taking place on August 15th in New York City, the exclusive invitation-only event will celebrate the journalists, documentarians, creatives, and notable figures in the media and entertainment industry who honor the truth with every fiber of their being.

Featuring a range of keynotes and panel discussions, the Summit will focus on excellence in documentary storytelling,...

Shows like ‘True Detective,’ ‘Hacks,’ ’ The Sympathizer,’ and others are putting their best foot forward for Emmy voters.

The Primetime Emmy Awards are still three months out, but campaign season is in full gear. The nomination round of voting began this week and runs through Monday, June 24. As is often the case, Warner Bros. Discovery has dozens of titles up for consideration between the premium prestige programs of HBO and the buzzy streaming-exclusive shows on Max. To help remind voters of the series that they loved over the past year, Max is launching For Your Consideration (FYC) panels featuring the cast, producers, and crews of titles to make the case for their nominations. Subscribers can find a large selection of panels on Max now, and those who aren’t already signed up for Max can take advantage of the streamer’s limited-time free trial to check out the panels and the shows themselves!

If the first The Jinx series had released as a binge-watch, everything about the Robert Durst story would be different.

“He would have been in Cuba,” director Andrew Jarecki explains of Durst, while reflecting on the docuseries’ 2015 beginning, during a chat about its 2024 ending.

The New York real estate heir had been suspected of three murders when HBO released The Jinx in February 2015, a project that Jarecki had already been working on for years. Part 2, which concluded its follow-up six episodes on Sunday night, explored how Durst went on the run after watching the fifth episode of The Jinx — Part 1. He never made it to Cuba, however — as he was apprehended the day before the next week’s finale aired, and would go on to broadcast his now-famous bathroom confession.

“It’s a unique situation, because usually a television show is not intertwined in that way with real life,” Jarecki tells The Hollywood Reporter.

No one could top the sensational ending to “The Jinx” — not even “The Jinx.” In 2015, the HBO true crime docuseries profiling New York real estate heir and alleged serial murderer Robert Durst shocked the world by catching Durst on a hot microphone making an apparent confession. “Killed them all, of course” was hardly a smoking gun from a legal point of view, but as television, those five words were the kind of stunning revelation that decades-old cold cases rarely provide. That Durst himself delivered the line in his distinctive, croaking rasp lent the whole saga the air of Greek tragedy, epitomizing the millionaire’s bizarre compulsion to unburden himself to filmmaker Andrew Jarecki in defiance of his own good luck.

“The Jinx: Part Two” concludes on a more anticlimactic note. Despite Durst’s 2021 conviction for the murder of his former friend Susan Berman and, in 2022, his death in prison, the...

When the first season of “The Jinx” concluded in 2015, it did so with a bang. That March, Robert Durst’s mumbled confession — “Killed them all, of course” — became the catchphrase of news broadcasts, late night shows and everyday conversations. It also sparked a trend in the larger television landscape. After years of being sidelined as a niche interest or confined to low-budget endeavors, true crime documentaries were at the forefront of pop culture.

“The Jinx” was followed by other buzzy, critically-acclaimed installments in the genre such as “Making a Murderer,” “Amanda Knox” and “The Keepers” on Netflix and “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” and “The Vow” on HBO. But the man who unintentionally sparked this boom doesn’t necessarily see it as a good thing.

“When people say true crime, I think there might be a misnomer,” Andrew Jarecki, the director behind both seasons of “The Jinx,...

By the time The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst first debuted in 2015, Robert Durst was arrested on suspicion of the murders of his missing wife and two others — all thanks to filmmaker Andrew Jarecki’s interviews with the wealthy real estate heir that resulted in a surprise confession. The documentary’s sequel, The Jinx: Part Two airs its final episode this Sunday on Max with even more details about the intriguing case.

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At the New York premiere, Jarecki told The Hollywood Reporter, “I think [Durst] is kind of a unicorn because he’s so unusual, because he’s such a powerful personality and also reckless and...

Andrew Jarecki admits that it’s bizarre and surprising he has been telling Robert Durst’s story for so long. Across two decades, The Jinx director has explored the true-crime tale of the New York real estate heir who was suspected of three murders across his life, which ended in 2022 at age 78 not long after a guilty verdict and prison life sentence was handed down in one of those murders.

“Not only does the story keep shifting and are there so many big human questions that it calls into play, but this whole Part Two is really about something different for us,” Jarecki told The Hollywood Reporter when talking about the follow-up to HBO’s 2015 series (which helped launch the true-crime documentary wave that still exists today). “A lot of Part One was retrospective, where these are terrible events that happened in the past. Part Two is really happening while you are watching it.

[The following story contains spoilers from the first two episodes of The Jinx — Part Two.]

In The Jinx — Part Two, John Lewin, the Los Angeles deputy district attorney investigating whether Robert Durst killed Susan Berman, recalls the moment he knew he might get a key witness to turn on his close friend.

Nick Chavin, who is described as the third member in the once-tight trio of Durst and Berman, is heard on a phone call in the HBO series where Lewin asks if he thinks his best friend Durst killed his other best friend Berman. “That’s one I’m not gonna answer,” Chavin answered.

“I did not know what Nick knew. But I thought that he had very damaging information, that he was conflicted about it and wasn’t ready to talk,” Lewin tells the filmmakers in Sunday’s second episode of Part Two, the follow-up to HBO’s shocking 2015 true-crime series.

The premiere of Part Two helped establish the...

“The Jinx” filmmaker Andrew Jarecki was living out a personal “The Journalist and the Murderer” saga when Robert Durst was on the run.

During the latest post-episode “Official Jinx Podcast” for “The Jinx — Part Two,” Jarecki and executive producer Zac Stuart-Pontier revealed that they were concerned for their safety between seasons of their HBO docuseries, before the fleeing Durst was apprehended by authorities.

“I said to them, ‘I think there’s a risk to me. And I’m Ok with that, but I’d like to have a plan in place if anything weird happens,’” Jarecki said of telling the FBI. “And then I remember calling up my guy and having him say, ‘Yeah, we really have no idea where he is.’ And I said, ‘Well, how’s that possible? You’re the FBI, right? You’re the Federal Bureau of Investigation. You should be the boss of where people are,...

[This story contains some spoilers from the premiere of The Jinx — Part Two.]

When speaking recently about the remarkable series of events that led to Robert Durst’s arrest one day before The Jinx aired its season one finale in 2015, the filmmakers behind The Jinx — Part Two, which premiered its six-episode follow-up on Sunday, revealed that director Andrew Jarecki knew from the FBI when Durst went on the run.

“Andrew knew that he was already on the run because there was some talk about some personal danger that Andrew was in,” executive producer Zac Stuart-Pontier told The Hollywood Reporter. “So, he did know that for those four or five days that [Durst] was on the run. But this was not common knowledge.”

Jarecki acknowledged there was confusion about what the public knew at the time, including when the filmmakers submitted evidence for the police investigation into Durst for the 2000 murder of his close friend, Susan Berman. The Jinx — Part Two explained via a title...